Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
IMMANUEL KANTWar seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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